RARE: The Sighing Of The Heart By Maritta Wolff

Sighing of the Heart is the British edition of Maritta Wolff’s 1942 novel Night Shift. Sighing of the Heart dramatizes the working class life of the Midwest during World War II with the excitement of melodrama, the vividness of documentary, and the page-turning quality of the best commercial fiction. Sally Otis works herself to the bone as a waitress, supporting her three children and a jobless younger sister. With her bills mounting and no rest in sight, Sally’s resolve is beginning to crumble when her swaggering older sister, Petey Braun, appears on the scene. Petey, with her furs and jewels and exotic trips, is an American career woman—one who makes a career of men. But when Petey gets a gig at the glamorous, rowdy local nightclub, it will forever alter the world of the struggling Otis family. Bound in brown cloth with silver titling to spine. No dustjacket. Contents leaning slightly. Some bumping to top corners. A little foxing to endpapers. Tanning to edges and pages. Published by Michael Joseph 1945